Camp del Carrer Indústria
| Camp del Carrer Indústria | |
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| L'Escopidora | |
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| L'Escopidora, with the main grandstand in the background | |
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 Barcelona , Spain
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| owner | FC Barcelona |
| opening | March 14, 1909 |
| First game | FC Barcelona 2-2 SC Català |
| surface | Natural grass |
| capacity | 6,000 seats |
| playing area | 91 m × 52 m |
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The Camp del Carrer Indústria (Spanish name: Campo de la calle Industria ), also known as L'Escopidora ('spittoon'), was a football stadium in Barcelona . It was the first stadium of FC Barcelona and served as the club's home stadium between 1909 and 1922.
history
In its first ten years, FC Barcelona played its home games at five different venues. On March 14, 1909, the Camp del Carrer Indústria, the club's first stadium, was inaugurated. The stadium is said to have seated up to 6,000 spectators, of which up to 1,500 were accommodated in the two-story wooden main grandstand. The stadium was the first stadium in the country to have artificial lighting. The opening game against SC Català , which ended 2-2, is reported to have watched 2,000 spectators.
In its second game in this stadium, FC Barcelona won the Catalan Championship in 1909. In the following years, the club celebrated its first national successes. In 1912 the final of the Copa del Rey was held for the first time in this stadium , where FC Barcelona won 3-1 over Gimnástica Madrid . The stadium was later the venue for the Copa del Rey finals for three more seasons. This was the case in 1913, when FC Barcelona defeated Real Sociedad San Sebastián 2-1 after a draw in the replay of their third game . After the stadium proved to be increasingly too small, FC Barcelona moved to a larger stadium, the Camp de Les Corts , in 1922 .
location
The Camp del Carrer Indústria was located between the streets Carrer Indústria (today: Carrer París ), Urgell and Villarroel .
Origin of the name "culés"
When there was a large crowd of spectators, the last row of spectators sat on the wall surrounding the stadium, which resulted in the image of behinds lined up for passers-by. For this reason, the fans of FC Barcelona are also known as "culés" or "culers", derived from the Catalan word "cul" ('ass').
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Individual evidence
- ↑ El bressol del Barça. In: El Punt. El Punt , March 14, 2009, accessed July 16, 2010 (Catalan).
- ↑ FC Barcelona: 100th anniversary of the Calle Industria ground ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Barça or: The art of beautiful play . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 3-89533-720-X , p. 31 .
